NAME
dtas-archive - paranoid audio file copy
SYNOPSYS
dtas-archive [OPTIONS] SOURCE DESTINATION
DESCRIPTION
dtas-archive is intended for archiving audio data to/from laptops,
marginal USB ports, and computers without ECC memory, attempting to read
data multiple times in an attempt to detect memory or bus corruption.
dtas-archive may only be effective on machines running the Linux kernel
where posix_fadvise(2) can be used to drop caches for a particular file
after fsync(2).
dtas-archive spawns sox(1) to archive audio data (likely uncompressed
WAVE) to FLAC and verifies the result using sndfile-cmp(1), a tool
implemented by different than sox and less likely to share the same bugs
(if any) as sox.
OPTIONS
-j, --jobs [JOBS]
Number of jobs to run in parallel. Incrementing this may hurt
performance on slow storage devices. Default: 1
-n, --dry-run
Print, but do not run the commands to be executed
-s, --quiet, --silent
Silent operation, commands are not printed as executed
-S, --stats
Run and save the text output of the sox "stats" effect as
$DESTINATION_FILE_WITHOUT_SUFFIX.stats next to the output file
-k, --keep-going
Continue after error
-r, --repeat [COUNT]
Number of times to repeat the sndfile-cmp(1) check. Default: 1
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2013-2016 all contributors
License: GPL-3.0+
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SEE ALSO
sndfile-cmp(1), sox(1)